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I have a 2011 iMac with El Capitan 10.11.4. Everything runs totally fine with the system, and diagnostics check out ok. I'm trying to sell it, so I need to wipe the hard drive & revert to factory settings. I'm following the commonly-published instructions, to reboot to recovery mode, use disk utiliity, etc.
The problem is that launching recovery mode either doesn't finish at all, or takes forever to launch. Just to get the language selection takes forever....I'm talking HOURS. Then if I can click on disk utility, I'll get a spinning disk forever when I try to click on the drive...literally it won't launch the dialog even 8 hours later. For some reason recovery mode is not working at all, even though the machine runs totally fine once booted normally.
Has anyone seen this behavior? Any possible fix? I don't want to sell the machine before I properly wipe the drive, so I'm really stuck.
Thanks!
The problem is that launching recovery mode either doesn't finish at all, or takes forever to launch. Just to get the language selection takes forever....I'm talking HOURS. Then if I can click on disk utility, I'll get a spinning disk forever when I try to click on the drive...literally it won't launch the dialog even 8 hours later. For some reason recovery mode is not working at all, even though the machine runs totally fine once booted normally.
Has anyone seen this behavior? Any possible fix? I don't want to sell the machine before I properly wipe the drive, so I'm really stuck.
Thanks!